A project from serial restaurateur Kelley Lee, Boxing Cat is an American-style brew pub featuring Pilsners, lagers, stouts and a rotating cast of others. This one, their first in downtown Shanghai, opened in 2008. The menu features southern 'Merican comfort food with... Read more

This tucked away Tianzifang grill is brought to you by the makers of the ever popular New York Style Pizza. On offer, USDA Prime beef in all its glorious permutations, namely heaping half-pound burgers and slabs of steak. Read more

Bistro Burger is a gourmet burger concept, with a range of Craft beers, spiked milkshakes, and burgers of all persuasions. They have different deals on most weeknights, including a free milkshake with any burger purchase on Wednesdays. Read more

The Blue Frog pub/restaurant chain has been around in Shanghai for over ten years. The menu is basically unfussy American-style food -- burgers, pastas, salads, sandwiches. To drink is a reasonable selection of beers (both bottled and tap). Its daily four-hour happy... Read more

The Blue Frog pub/restaurant chain has been around in Shanghai for over ten years. The menu is basically unfussy American-style food -- burgers, pastas, salads, sandwiches. To drink is a reasonable selection of beers (both bottled and tap). Its daily four-hour happy... Read more

The Blue Frog pub/restaurant chain has been around in Shanghai for over ten years. The menu is basically unfussy American-style food -- burgers, pastas, salads, sandwiches. To drink is a reasonable selection of beers (both bottled and tap). Its daily four-hour happy... Read more

This Big Bamboo is located on Laowai Jie, the one with all the foreign food joints. Lots of outdoor seating and a large screen playing sports on the terrace. Mostly business people and expats coming through, with a few people always on the pool table. Prices are a... Read more

The Blue Frog pub/restaurant chain has been around in Shanghai for over ten years. The menu is basically unfussy American-style food -- burgers, pastas, salads, sandwiches. To drink is a reasonable selection of beers (both bottled and tap). Its daily four-hour happy... Read more

Once boasting three branches around town, Ginger has consolidated and regrouped on Xingguo Lu. The space is a gem. Cozy and compact, it sits perched over a small park complete with wizened old men practicing their tai chi and playing chess and stuff -- very... Read more

This is the Pudong outpost of the (in)famous American restaurant chain known for its all-female service staff clad in short shorts, tank tops and push-up bras. The menu is your standard suburban American mall-side fare: hot wings, burgers, sandwiches etc. The... Read more

Popular creative burger shop Gourmet Cafe has been radically renovated and re-branded. The concept is still burgers, but the menu has changed dramatically. The owners have departed from burgers with novelty ingredients and clever names to more simple pleasures like a... Read more

International a la carte all-day dining restaurant with 11 theater kitchens serving fresh sushi shipped in from Tokyo three times weekly, street-style Malaysian food, all manner of Canto-style dim sum and more. There is also a "cheese cave" and a gourmet deli boutique. Read more

This butcher shop has been on Xiangyang Lu for years, and in Spring 2016, they did some major renovations, doubling the size and adding a full-on restaurant and bar with a patio overlooking the street. So you can grab steaks to cook at home, or eat them in the... Read more

Very cheap bar popular with students at the nearby East China Normal University. Check out their buckets of rum and Coke for 30rmb, or some ridiculously low price like that. Your head will not thank you for it in the morning, but hey, good times is good times. Read more

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